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How can the House vote on anything Sunday evening? What happened to the "THREE DAY rule"?
one man's opinion.....

Posted on 12/29/2012 6:41:52 AM PST by ken5050

News reports say that Reid and McConnell are going to work through the weekend to try ad reach a deal. House members have been called back to the Capitol,and the House is scheduled to meet Sunday evening. All this is designed to possibly get a bull that Obama can sign Monday morning, in order to avoid going over the fiscal cliff. But there's just one small problem, which nobody's talking about.. the House rule that mandates that no legislation can be passed until three days have passed, to allow for representatives, and the public, to read, understand, and comment on the contents of the bill.


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KEYWORDS: 112th; fiscalcliff
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This came about after the 2010 elections, when the GOP took control of the House. In the previous House, the Democrats had passed Obamacare with virtually nobody having time to read the bill, let alone understand what was in it.

Remember the travesty of then Speaker Pelosi deigning to tell we, the people, that "we have to pass the bill before we can know what's in it."

I would remind Boehner and the rest of the GOP leadership that is the main reason why she is now FORMER Speaker Pelosi.

If you want to follow her out the door, just go ahead and cram this through on Sunday.

We are facing a situation where the Senate will agree to a hideous bill, ( thanks, McConnell) and the Speaker of the House will bring it to the floor, and it will pass with all Democrat votes and maybe 10% of the GOP caucus.

And they are going to throw away their own vaunted reform rules to do so, the very promise of an open governance which is what led the American people to elect them in 2010.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

1 posted on 12/29/2012 6:41:58 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ken5050

GOP=SQUISH


2 posted on 12/29/2012 6:42:34 AM PST by AdaGray
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To: ken5050
What happened to the "THREE DAY rule"?

"Rules" are for little people.

3 posted on 12/29/2012 6:44:36 AM PST by grobdriver
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To: ken5050

The cowards can’t do anything in the open any more.


4 posted on 12/29/2012 6:48:15 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: ken5050; All
The plan is for the Senate to vote on a bill the House already passed and vote on amendments.

The 3 day rule won't apply to the bill that was already passed.

5 posted on 12/29/2012 6:49:59 AM PST by newzjunkey (bah)
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“You have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it” - Pelosi


6 posted on 12/29/2012 6:49:59 AM PST by RedMDer (Those that believe in gun free zones should post gun free zone signs on their property and persons.)
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"Rules? We don' need no steenkeen' rules. "
7 posted on 12/29/2012 6:50:14 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: bmwcyle

next, a 60 foot high wall around Capitol Hill to protect them from the people ~


8 posted on 12/29/2012 6:50:45 AM PST by muawiyah
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Rules??? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules!


9 posted on 12/29/2012 6:51:02 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ken5050

Reid forced them to break the rule last year by stalling until a deadline came.

Making the Rs break their rule is a “two-fer” for Reid.


10 posted on 12/29/2012 6:51:22 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: ken5050

“Rules” like the “Law” is now time variant,
and applicable to some, not all.


11 posted on 12/29/2012 6:51:34 AM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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All this is designed to possibly get a bull that Obama can sign Monday morning

Possibly a typo, or maybe a Freudian slip...either way very appropriate.

12 posted on 12/29/2012 6:53:12 AM PST by memyselfandi59
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Ah, so technically they’re not breaking the rule if the name of the bill is the same even even though the language is completely different.

Reid only makes them break the spirit of the rule.


13 posted on 12/29/2012 6:56:52 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: memyselfandi59

I was about to post the same thing. A very truthful slip of the pen.


14 posted on 12/29/2012 6:56:53 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: newzjunkey

If they didn’t do it that way it would not pass Constitutional muster.


15 posted on 12/29/2012 7:06:06 AM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: memyselfandi59

A bull is a type of papal edict.

But your point is well taken, and probably more accurate!


16 posted on 12/29/2012 7:06:06 AM PST by Vesuvian
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Hell they don’t even read stuff before they vote on it


17 posted on 12/29/2012 7:06:57 AM PST by bigbob
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Haven’t you noticed that in the last 10 and especially the last four years, everybody in DC is above the law? They do what they want, regardless of its impact on the country or people. I would not be surprised if they held the vote by telephone with no recording of the individual votes, just Aye or Yeah allowed.


18 posted on 12/29/2012 7:09:36 AM PST by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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To: muawiyah

Escape from Congress, queue Snake.


19 posted on 12/29/2012 7:12:13 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: muawiyah

next, a 60 foot high wall around Capitol Hill, THEN fill it with water !!!!!


20 posted on 12/29/2012 7:16:56 AM PST by OHPatriot (It's time to party like it's 1096 AD.)
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